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Gamer Nation Video Games and American Culture / John Wills.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wills, John, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence in video games.
- Video games--Design--Psychological aspects.
- Video games.
- Video games--Social aspects--United States.
- Video games and teenagers--United States.
- Video games and teenagers.
- Video games and children--United States.
- Video games and children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "This book takes a cultural studies approach to analyzing video games for young players. It considers not only how games reflect myths in American culture but also how they propagate those myths through their design, imagery, and scenarios of violence"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Games and new frontiers
- Playing cowboys and Indians in the digital West
- Cold War gaming
- 9/11 code
- Fighting the virtual War on Terror
- Grand theft Los Angeles
- Second life, second America
- Converging worlds.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2869-5
- OCLC:
- 1105472720
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